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Lotta Love

Neil Young's song, recorded by Larson as the lead single from Nicolette.
Nicolette Larson, from Nicolette (1978)

Young recorded his own version on January 10, 1976 at Wally Heider Studios with Crazy Horse, produced by Young and David Briggs; it runs 2:38 and appeared on Comes a Time (1978), where Larson sang backup. Larson said she got the song off a tape she found lying on the floor of Neil's car. Her version, produced by Ted Templeman with a string arrangement by Jimmie Haskell, a horn riff and a flute solo, came out around October 31, 1978 as the lead single from Nicolette. In 1979 it reached 8 on the Hot 100 and on Cash Box, number 1 on the Easy Listening chart, 4 in Canada (number 1 on adult contemporary), 11 in Australia and 22 in New Zealand. She performed it at No Nukes in Madison Square Garden in September 1979 with the Doobie Brothers. Covers include Dinosaur Jr. (1989), She & Him (2008) and Courtney Barnett (2025). We could not identify which recording our upload is.

On stage

  • 1979-09, Madison Square Garden, New York The No Nukes concerts, with the Doobie Brothers.

Covers and versions

  • Dinosaur Jr. (1989) On The Bridge.
  • She & Him (2008)
  • Courtney Barnett (2025)

Sources

  1. Lotta Love, Wikipedia
  2. Nicolette Larson, Wikipedia
  3. The story behind Neil Young's Lotta Love, American Songwriter